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Adstipulator
Adstipulator, an accessory party to a promise, who received the same promise as his principal did, and could equally receive and exact payment; or he only stipulated for a part of that for which the principal...
Accessary, or Accessory
and assist her husband, though knowing him to be a felon. In treason and misdemeanours there are no accessories, either before or after the offence, every person implicated being a principal [see (English) Accessories and Abettors Act,
accessory
also accessory before the fact compare principal in the second degree at principal NOTE: The traditional distinction between accessories before the fact and principals, that accessories were not present and principals were present at the commission of
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Goods
sulphur or fluorine. [Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 (34 of 2000), s. 2(e)] Telephone connection and all other accessories which give access to the telephone exchange with or without instruments are 'goods' within the meaning of s.
Accessorium non ducit, sed sequitur suum principale
Accessorium non ducit, sed sequitur suum principale [Lat.], The accessory right does not lead, but follows its principal. Rent
Mandate
principal object of the parties is the custody of the thing; and the service and labour are merely accessorial. In the former, the labour and service are the principal objects of the parties, and the thing is
contract
contract [Latin contractus from contrahere to draw together, enter into (a relationship or agreement), from com- with, together + trahere to draw] 1 : an agreement between two or more parties that creates in each party...
Acquittal
Acquittal, The legal certification usually by jury verdict that an accused person is not guilty of the charged offence. [fr. acquitter, Fr.; quietus, Lat., to free, acquit, or discharged], a deliverance and setting free of a...
Principal and accessory (or accessory)
(b) of the second degree, i.e., those who are present, aiding and abetting the act to be done. Accessories are not the chief actors in the offence, nor present at its performance, but are in some way
Dissenters Chapels Act
or meeting-house of any Non-conformist body, or the intentions of the founders by whom the building or its accessories or endowments were given, when such doctrines have been taught there, or such ritual practised, for the last
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